Combining the knowledge of local laws and cultures with a global reach is just one of the ways Baker & McKenzie separates itself from other firms. Our genuinely global perspective allows us to operate without boundaries around the world, in every jurisdiction that is important to your business.

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Natural Resources & Mining in Australia

Baker & McKenzie's Natural Resources & Mining Group provides effective, focused solutions to the challenges facing companies across the mining and metals, upstream, midstream and downstream oil and gas, petrochemicals, coal and chemical sectors. Our team stands out from its peers in the areas of utility regulation, strategic counsel, transactions and privatisations, and has been instrumental in major assignments for public and private sector clients in both developed and emerging markets.

Our team has advised on every aspect of Australian natural resources and energy projects, including obtaining exploration tenements, offshore acreage and surface land tenure, structuring joint ventures, preparing project agreements and financing documentation. We assist our clients in commercial operations and sales contract negotiations, purchase and sale of interests in projects, and trade sales of asset packages. We also provide general mining, oil, gas, native title, contract, corporate, tax, employment and environmental law advice.

We work closely with Baker & McKenzie's Clean Energy & Renewables Group, who advise our clients on carbon policy and help in developing creative and practical solutions to their carbon emission restrictions.

By drawing on Baker & McKenzie's local and integrated global platform we are capable of handling complicated cross-border resource and mining transactions, for both local and international clients. This global connectivity ensures we consistently offer our clients sophisticated natural resources and mining advice, adopting best-practice standards from across the globe.

We explain the Dutch government’s measures to implement policies and guidelines to reduce power consumption and increase energy savings. Though the bill that transposes the EC directive’s clauses into Dutch law has not yet passed the senate as of 28 February 2015, the Netherlands already complies with the directive’s general requirements.

On 1 March 2013, Germany has adopted a new version of its Foreign Trade Act. The aim of the reform is to streamline German export control law and to create a level playing field for German exporters in Europe.

Every day our more than 4,000 lawyers, economists, tax advisors and other professionals share insights and best practices across borders and practices. We speak more than 75 languages and represent more than 55 nationalities, and the close relationships among our people fosters the trust needed to develop and deliver world-class solutions to multinational clients.

We share an uncompromising commitment to excellence, which explains why more of our lawyers are included as leading lawyers in the Chambers Global Guide to the World’s Best Lawyers than any other Global 20 law firm.

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We started with a vision of going global and were in eight countries before our 10th anniversary. Today we have 77 offices in 47 countries -- including the emerging markets so important to the growth of your business.